Designer 8.5.3 added two nice features to allow a developer to customize Designer. First, there are now new perspectives tailored for either a traditional Notes developer (no XPages) or an XPages developer. These new perspectives hide the design elements in the Applications Navigator that would not be needed. Plus, the Forms/Views Perspective will hide the XPages related views like Outline and Controls Palette allowing for more screen "real estate". Finally, the Domino design elements in the Applications Navigator can be customized for each perspective to only show the design elements you need.

Domino Designer 8.5.3 added several very nice features for XPages developers. This tip covers how to customize the controls that appear on the Controls palette. This ability is one of the new additions in Domino Designer 8.5.3.

There are often issues when previewing local Domino web applications in the Notes client and/or Domino Designer. The problem is that port 80 is used by the local web preview feature and is frequently also used by other programs. One such program is Skype. This tip will show you how to configure Skype so it does not use port 80.